I think people have "aura" I guess which are distinct but I think that aura is just people seeing a manifestation of your subconscious whether it's in a corporal language that is so strong that it exudes a distinct emotion and personality or other less scientific and more kind of mystical thing. But overall I still think this so called aura or soul or whatever is called is either in the brain of an individual (as in being is subconscious) or being the result of a connection between brains of two different people but that might imply the "soul" of a person would vary depending on who's perceiving it and there constantly changing and evolving. It would be messy and complicated but things are complex so why not.
I believe in the soul as in the expression of mind, not brain but mind. Actually now that I think back on it. I believe in the subconscious so it might be similar to the idea of a soul. Soul seems more mystical when subconscious is more theoretical but it actually might be concept that are pretty close. I don't know what's your concept of soul, it's pretty vague and anyone has a different interpretation so it really depends how you define soul. I define it as the "essence of someone" and in that case I would say, I'm not into it. Because to me the essence of someone would consist of everything conscious and the subconscious. The subconscious would kinda be the equivalent to the soul but I don't think that's the essence of someone just the hidden/undeveloped part.
And for soulmates. I really don't think so. I think it's people clicking more with certain people because their life experiences made them a certain way that echoes more with yours. I'd even go as far as to say that every single person is a complex and interesting being and while there's some that you know you might clash with if you truly really learn to know someone you ultimately end up getting attached and they just grow on you. You just even learn to shrug at horrible flaws they could have. You kinda find things in common with everyone no one is really that one dimensional (except people who do it on purpose but then again if you dig deeper they're probably dope too). There's attraction to take into account to and that would take me back to the sort of aura thing where I think attraction is liking the feedback you get from someone whether it's physically and in that case well it's pretty simple. It's literally what you see (maybe not entirely there's also confidence and charm in attractiveness) Or personality wise, emotional wise, intellectually wise and in that case I think it's just your subconscious liking something they think they perceive in the other, from their "aura" (what exudes their bodies) or from conversation.
And as for souls that stays after death I think that's kinda true but again I feel like it's a connection between individual more than a specific entity. I think after someone dies they still live and remain through people's memory and perception of them and I'm not opposed to the idea that what stays becomes a sort of ethereal invisible presence but I do not believe this.
A soul is not something that you possess, it is something that you emit. When you die, you stop emitting more soul, but the soul that you have already emitted still bounces around. An example of soul would be my mentor's father, and all the people he touched in his life that are still influenced by the way he lived, and that will in turn influence others.
Afterlife: my general thought is that there isn't one. I wish that there was. But I don't think there is some solar repository you go to when you die.
Ghosts:
Interestingly all of the world's major religions agree on the existence of ghosts, they're mentioned numerous times across various religious texts. The disciples for example famously fear Jesus when they encounter him walking towards them on water in the middle of a storm, asking if he's a ghost. Whether you believe the events of the bible happened or not, what is clear is that the authors themselves believed in ghosts, and in fact a belief in ghosts is found throughout every major culture, dating back to the dawn of history itself.
The nonmaterial embodiment, or essence or organism that's seen as a specter, wraith or apparition has been scientifically proven to be a sheer myth. In other words, there's no such thing as a ghost. Watch Myth Busters, watch Penn & Teller: Bullshit, subscribe to Skeptic Magazine and Skeptical Inquirer and read any scientific book and watch that so-called "evidence" for ghosts just disappear.
When people talk about "scientific proof of ghosts" they usually site the first law of thermodynamics: matter cannot be created nor destroyed, it can only change forms. So the total amount of energy and matter in the universe always remains constant. So when we die is it possible that our energy manifests as ghosts? Well not if we're gonna stay consistent. Energy is transferred into the environment meaning that human energy transfers like all other organisms energy into other life forms and plants that absorb it.
Ghost hunters monitor the temperature of the room because it gets cold in a ghost's presence. And yet if ghosts were indeed a type of energy it would be impossible for them to cool the room down. Only if ghosts were made of matter could they then absorb the heat from the room and cool it down. But if ghosts were made of matter then they would be physically observable.
Today modern science has given us many explanations for phenomenon we traditionally considered to be ghosts. Dancing lights which humans believed for millennia where spirits or playful sprites have been shown to be a rare phenomenon known as ball lightning.
From my background in mathematical physics I'll say this (AGAIN): I don't know on ghosts, although some things called ghosts are persistent energy patterns (a bit like whirlpools in reality). What we call reality is based on seemingly-random events. However systems with seemingly-random events can have larger non-random patterns. For example, water molecules bounce around seemingly randomly off each other in a large body of water, yet the ocean can have currents and waves that are far from random and these patterns can persist. The best non-dismissive explanation for ghosts that I know is that they are persistent patterns in reality, similar to a whirlpool and a stream that periodically forms in the same place. These examples are a subset of persistent patterns in reality. Any sort (of energy) that can interact with the human. For example, an oddly-shaped tree can suggest things that repel or attract particular types of people, or a room can reflect sound in a peculiar way, or have strange drafts... I think that what we mean by "ghosts" are mostly psychological, but that can be triggered by some real phenomenon. We don't necessarily refer to the energy itself as a ghost. Any sort of energy that can be perceived (patterns of shade, the outline of a big tree, clouds, wind and other air currents, probably magnetic fields, sounds, etc.) can trigger the human brain to come up with explanations for that which is perceived, and a ghost is one of the way that people explain what they perceive.
Mostly psychological.
Stone tape theory is not right, but people behaving differently does influence their environment, which can influence other (including future) people, so it is not total garbage.
I think there is a logical explanation for ghosts. I think it's something that we don't understand yet. I have ideas. The problem is real serious scientists don't seem to want to investigate which is a shame because I think it could be interesting. Some things that I've come up with is that oftentimes places where people see ghosts have high electronic readings and stuff like that.
High levels of EM Radiation is also associated with paranormal activity. Living near a substation, or high voltage power lines. It's possible that there's magnetic fields in the earth that we don't understand and that maybe they mess with our heads and we see things. And if you're on a battlefield maybe you see soldiers because you expect to see soldiers. But I don't know thats my guess.
Personally I don't believe that ghosts are dead people floating around. I've seen something that people consider a "paranormal activity" at Gettysburg, I saw the floating orbs over the battlefield. These things I'm quite certain that they're not human souls wandering around because that would require us to have souls and I don't see any proof of that. The human consciousness cannot exist without the body. You are inexorably linked to your brain and vice versa. So unless we could prove that somehow human beings could exist outside of the body or at least consciousness then we could get onto the issue of ghosts as actual beings. I think it's more likely that ghosts are the result of some sort of magnetic wave or something that we do not understand yet that emanates from the earth or the sun or the moon or whatever and that messes with our brain in a way that we don't understand yet.
I know some people who have told some pretty... entertaining, I'm not sure how convincing, ghost stories of their own experiences. So a part of me really, really wants to believe in them. But the fact of the matter is, I don't. Its kind of a nice thought to think that there is an afterlife and a spirit world but I have never experienced any ghosts. Yet. So whats the final word on my belief, well, I certainly, certainly think that there are things in this world that we cannot fully understand or do not yet fully understand. All sorts of strange things happen all the time to all sorts of different people. I mean people I personally know have had these weird things happen. Is this proof of ghosts? No. Is it evidence? Maybe, I think that ghosts are possibility.
I'm sure there's people with better explanations than me but the way that I look at it is that anything that's natural is governed by laws. Physics is governed by laws, the way that your body works, different chemicals interact within it is governed by laws. Everything in nature is governed by laws even these weird things about physics like uncaused appearance of particles, ect. anything that happens in physics either has been explained by law or can and will be explained by a law. The supernatural obviously is the exact opposite in this situation. The supernatural does not have the same laws apply to it as everything else in our world. And if anything "supernatural" exists it wouldn't really matter because we couldn't apply the scientific method to it because being supernatural it wouldn't be governed by the same laws that we have to know in order to know how things work in order to apply the scientific method. So we wouldn't even be able to I don't know "research" ghosts or whatever in the same way that we could understand how a star works or something like that. There's no reason for there to be a supernatural, there's no reason to believe that. There's no reason that you should feel close-minded about this. That's like, most of us 99.9% of us can agree that there is not a secret society of fairies that live under the ground. If you're not willing to accept that possibility that doesn't make you close-minded, that makes you rational. There's no reason to throw out everything you know about how the world works to indulge whimsical ideas about ghosts and goblins and whatnot. It's amazing all the things people used to think were supernatural that can be explained by natural reasons. Possessions for example, most of these turned out to be seizures. People being tormented by demons or whatever is symptoms of things like schizophrenia. So considering how much we've already been able to explain away I think it's foolish to assume that something like ghosts doesn't have a naturalistic explanation.
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